01/23/09
I will start the article by briefly describing what steroids are and how they work in the body. Steroids fall under two divisions which are anabolic steroids and corticosteroids respectively. The latter is usually legal in many states and countries because they do not pose any serious threat to a person’s health if properly administered. Corticosteroids are very famous in the medical field because they are one of the most effective drugs when it comes to treating body inflammations. They are also prescribed by many doctors in controlling asthma.
Care should be given when taking corticosteroids because if they are not properly administered they could also lead to various side effects. There have been reported cases where a body builder uses corticosteroids in order to improve there performance. They do these by taking almost twice the recommended dosage and these poses a great threat not only to there bodybuilding career but also to there life. Health is something you can never afford no matter how rich you are; therefore care should be exercised so that you do not endanger your health. Anabolic steroids on the other hand are synthetic proteins that are very effective in the quick formation of body muscles. They have been specifically designed so that there structure looks like that of the male sex hormone namely testosterone.
When you take anabolic steroids you are actually increasing the levels of testosterone in your body. Testosterones have been known to lead to aggressiveness in people especially if there levels are too high. In teenagers the testosterone level is at its peak and that is why you will find that many young men are usually very aggressive and this aggression begins to fade away as they begin to age. I remember when I was first starting out in bodybuilding. I trained for quite some time but I felt that the rate of my progression was not fast enough. So I did something that I have never been proud of to date, I started using steroids. Back then I was in my early twenties and I was really interested in gaining mass quickly no matter the consequences.
I can’t say that I was not aware of the fact that steroids have side effects. I knew of the risk I was getting myself into but still this did not deter me from using steroids. The problem with being young is that you think you know everything there is to know about life and assume that rules do not apply when it comes to your life. However this is not the case, even if you manage to get away with things at some point they always manage to catch up with you.
Three months after using them I began to realize rampant change in my mood swings. I would get annoyed at almost anything or anyone who stood in my way. The person who suffered the most was my girlfriend because I reached a point where I started hitting her. This later progressed until I got into severe depression, and finally my girlfriend left me.
I knew it was time to quit and immediately I quit taking them my mental health greatly improved.
